This month’s Tips &Tricks gives a functional overview of our plant maintenance solution Coswin 8i, covers assets management, work management, resources management, stock management, purchase management, metrology, project management, multiple organization management and workflow management.

Coswin 8i is now accessible on tablets. In touch-screen mode, Coswin 8i screens are optimized for the tablets smaller screen format and specific touch-screen usage with fingers. Coswin 8i is certified for Windows 7 & 8 and Android 4.2 and above tablets, running Chrome version 30 or above. Screen should be minimum 7’’ (10’’ recommended).

Using BIM (Building Information Modelling) for Facilities Lifecycle Management has become a hot topic in the last few years, but it is never implemented in practice. One reason is a lack of understanding of maintenance by design institutes and BIM vendors or related company. Another reason is the lack of suitable technological tools. In this Tips & Trips, we would like to illustrate this integration using the real-life integration made between the Cadmatic design tools and our bluebee® facilities management system.

Today, maintenance processes are no longer limited to the factory or the maintenance department: they are collaborative. For this reason, Coswin 8i Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows for interactions with other applications and Siveco provides a range of standard tools to integrate the system into the corporate IT environment.

Coswin 8i is a Computerized Maintenance Management System and Enterprise Asset Management solution designed to help companies increase their profitability, by improving the management of corporate assets, increasing employees’ productivity and reducing costs, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

The equipment structure has been totally rebuilt in Coswin 8i. Now the structure is displayed within a table, where each line represents an equipment object, either geographical or technical. This structured equipment list can be filtered by zone, function or even by category.